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  • Get to know InDesign
    1. Introduction to InDesign
      1. What's New in InDesign
      2. What's New in InDesign (Beta)
      3. Adobe InDesign desktop release notes
      4. System requirements
      5. Common questions
      6. Use Creative Cloud libraries
      7. GPU performance
      1. Workspace basics
      2. Contextual Task Bar
      3. Templates
      4. Projects
      5. Customize your workspace in InDesign
      6. Toolbox
      7. Set preferences
      8. Properties panel
      9. Touch workspace
      10. Default keyboard shortcuts
      11. Undo edits and manage History panel
      12. Document recovery and undo
      1. Text to Image
      2. Generative Expand
      3. Generative Fill (beta)
      4. Generate alt text for images
      5. Generate Text in InDesign (Beta)
      6. AI Assistant overview in InDesign (Beta)
      7. Use AI Assistant in InDesign (Beta)
      8. Generative AI FAQ
      1. Create documents
      2. Work with parent pages
      3. Work with document pages
      4. Set page size, margins, and bleed
      5. Work with files and templates
      6. Convert PDFs to InDesign Documents
      7. Create book files
      8. Add basic page numbering
      9. Number pages, chapters, and sections
      10. Convert QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents
      11. Share content
      12. Understand a basic managed-file workflow
      13. Save documents
      1. Grids
      2. Format grids
      1. Work with Flex Layout
      2. Flex Layout panel overview
      3. Create a team page using Flex Layout
      4. Apply Flex Layout properties using object style
      5. Apply Flex Layout in an existing document
      6. Auto-detect Flex Layout in InDesign
      7. Manage Flex Layout conflicts
      1. Layers
      2. Locate objects in Layers panel
      3. Rulers
      4. Align and distribute objects using rulers
      5. Measure objects using the Measure tool
      1. Add text to frames
      2. Threading text
      3. South-East Asian Scripts
      4. Arabic and Hebrew features in InDesign
      5. Create type on a path
      6. Bullets and numbering
      7. Create math expressions
      8. Glyphs and special characters
      9. Text composition
      10. Composing CJK characters
      11. Text variables
      12. Generate QR codes
      13. Edit text
      14. Align text
      15. Wrap text around objects
      16. Anchored objects
      17. Linked content
      18. Format paragraphs
      19. Format characters
      1. Using fonts in InDesign
      2. Kerning and tracking
      3. Scale and skew type
      4. Apply color effects to type
      1. Format text
      2. Auto Style text
      3. Work with Style Packs
      4. Tabs and indents
      1. Track and review changes
      2. Add editorial notes in InDesign
      3. Import PDF comments
      1. Check spelling, autocorrect, and dynamic spelling
      2. Create, add, and manage dictionaries and words
      3. Change dictionary preferences
      4. Duden dictionary
      1. Create a table of contents
      2. Footnotes
      3. Create an index
      4. Endnotes
      5. Captions
      1. Paragraph and character styles
      2. Map, export, and manage styles
      3. Object styles
      4. Drop caps and nested styles
      5. Work with styles
      6. Leading
      1. Format tables
      2. Create tables
      3. Table and Cell styles
      4. Select and edit tables
      5. Table strokes and fills
      1. Hyperlinks
      2. Dynamic PDF documents
      3. Bookmarks
      4. Buttons
      5. Forms
      6. Animation
      7. Cross-references
      8. Structure PDFs
      9. Page transitions
      10. Movies and sounds
      1. Understand paths and shapes
      2. Draw with the Pencil tool
      3. Draw with the Pen tool
      4. Apply line (stroke) settings 
      5. Compound paths and shapes
      6. Edit paths
      7. Clipping paths
      8. Change corner appearance
      9. Edit images
      10. Frames and objects
      11. Align and distribute objects
      12. Linked and embedded graphics
      13. Integrate AEM assets
      1. Apply color
      2. Use colors from imported graphics
      3. Work with swatches
      4. Mix inks
      5. Tints
      6. Understand spot and process colors
      7. Blend colors
      8. Gradients
      9. Flatten transparent artwork
      10. Add transparency effects
    1. Find and replace text
    2. Find and replace fonts
    3. Find and replace glyphs
    4. Find and replace using GREP expressions and queries
    5. Find and replace objects
    6. Find and replace colors
    7. Search options to find and replace
    1. Save and access cloud documents
    2. Organize, manage, and share cloud documents
    3. View and manage versions in cloud documents
    4. Common questions about InDesign cloud documents
    5. InCopy on the web (beta)
    6. Share and collaborate
    7. Share for Review
    8. Review a shared InDesign document
    9. Manage feedback
    10. Invite to edit
      1. Publish online
      2. Publish online dashboard
      3. Place Firefly assets
      4. Copy, insert graphics
      5. Export to Adobe Express
      6. Export content for EPUB
      7. Accessibility enhancements for Indexes
      8. Adjust text resizing options
      9. Create accessible glossaries
      10. ARIA role and label support
      11. Adobe PDF options
      12. Export to HTML5
      13. Export content to HTML (Legacy)
      14. Export to Adobe PDF
      15. Export to JPEG or PNG format
      16. Import SVG files
      17. Supported File Formats
      18. Export and import User Settings
      1. Print booklets
      2. Printer's marks and bleeds
      3. Print documents
      4. Inks, separation, and screen frequency
      5. Overprinting
      6. Create PostScript and EPS files
      7. Preflight files before handoff
      8. Print thumbnails and oversized documents
      9. Prepare PDFs for service providers
      10. Prepare to print separations
      1. Data merge
      2. Plug-ins
      3. Capture extension in InDesign
      4. Scripting
    1. Fixed issues
    2. Known issues
    3. Crash on launch
    4. Improve InDesign performance
    5. Preference folder read-only issue
    6. Troubleshoot file issues
    7. Unable to export InDesign file to PDF
    8. InDesign document recovery
    1. InDesign User Guide
    2. Get to know InDesign
      1. Introduction to InDesign
        1. What's New in InDesign
        2. What's New in InDesign (Beta)
        3. Adobe InDesign desktop release notes
        4. System requirements
        5. Common questions
        6. Use Creative Cloud libraries
        7. GPU performance
        1. Workspace basics
        2. Contextual Task Bar
        3. Templates
        4. Projects
        5. Customize your workspace in InDesign
        6. Toolbox
        7. Set preferences
        8. Properties panel
        9. Touch workspace
        10. Default keyboard shortcuts
        11. Undo edits and manage History panel
        12. Document recovery and undo
        1. Text to Image
        2. Generative Expand
        3. Generative Fill (beta)
        4. Generate alt text for images
        5. Generate Text in InDesign (Beta)
        6. AI Assistant overview in InDesign (Beta)
        7. Use AI Assistant in InDesign (Beta)
        8. Generative AI FAQ
        1. Create documents
        2. Work with parent pages
        3. Work with document pages
        4. Set page size, margins, and bleed
        5. Work with files and templates
        6. Convert PDFs to InDesign Documents
        7. Create book files
        8. Add basic page numbering
        9. Number pages, chapters, and sections
        10. Convert QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents
        11. Share content
        12. Understand a basic managed-file workflow
        13. Save documents
        1. Grids
        2. Format grids
        1. Work with Flex Layout
        2. Flex Layout panel overview
        3. Create a team page using Flex Layout
        4. Apply Flex Layout properties using object style
        5. Apply Flex Layout in an existing document
        6. Auto-detect Flex Layout in InDesign
        7. Manage Flex Layout conflicts
        1. Layers
        2. Locate objects in Layers panel
        3. Rulers
        4. Align and distribute objects using rulers
        5. Measure objects using the Measure tool
        1. Add text to frames
        2. Threading text
        3. South-East Asian Scripts
        4. Arabic and Hebrew features in InDesign
        5. Create type on a path
        6. Bullets and numbering
        7. Create math expressions
        8. Glyphs and special characters
        9. Text composition
        10. Composing CJK characters
        11. Text variables
        12. Generate QR codes
        13. Edit text
        14. Align text
        15. Wrap text around objects
        16. Anchored objects
        17. Linked content
        18. Format paragraphs
        19. Format characters
        1. Using fonts in InDesign
        2. Kerning and tracking
        3. Scale and skew type
        4. Apply color effects to type
        1. Format text
        2. Auto Style text
        3. Work with Style Packs
        4. Tabs and indents
        1. Track and review changes
        2. Add editorial notes in InDesign
        3. Import PDF comments
        1. Check spelling, autocorrect, and dynamic spelling
        2. Create, add, and manage dictionaries and words
        3. Change dictionary preferences
        4. Duden dictionary
        1. Create a table of contents
        2. Footnotes
        3. Create an index
        4. Endnotes
        5. Captions
        1. Paragraph and character styles
        2. Map, export, and manage styles
        3. Object styles
        4. Drop caps and nested styles
        5. Work with styles
        6. Leading
        1. Format tables
        2. Create tables
        3. Table and Cell styles
        4. Select and edit tables
        5. Table strokes and fills
        1. Hyperlinks
        2. Dynamic PDF documents
        3. Bookmarks
        4. Buttons
        5. Forms
        6. Animation
        7. Cross-references
        8. Structure PDFs
        9. Page transitions
        10. Movies and sounds
        1. Understand paths and shapes
        2. Draw with the Pencil tool
        3. Draw with the Pen tool
        4. Apply line (stroke) settings 
        5. Compound paths and shapes
        6. Edit paths
        7. Clipping paths
        8. Change corner appearance
        9. Edit images
        10. Frames and objects
        11. Align and distribute objects
        12. Linked and embedded graphics
        13. Integrate AEM assets
        1. Apply color
        2. Use colors from imported graphics
        3. Work with swatches
        4. Mix inks
        5. Tints
        6. Understand spot and process colors
        7. Blend colors
        8. Gradients
        9. Flatten transparent artwork
        10. Add transparency effects
      1. Find and replace text
      2. Find and replace fonts
      3. Find and replace glyphs
      4. Find and replace using GREP expressions and queries
      5. Find and replace objects
      6. Find and replace colors
      7. Search options to find and replace
      1. Save and access cloud documents
      2. Organize, manage, and share cloud documents
      3. View and manage versions in cloud documents
      4. Common questions about InDesign cloud documents
      5. InCopy on the web (beta)
      6. Share and collaborate
      7. Share for Review
      8. Review a shared InDesign document
      9. Manage feedback
      10. Invite to edit
        1. Publish online
        2. Publish online dashboard
        3. Place Firefly assets
        4. Copy, insert graphics
        5. Export to Adobe Express
        6. Export content for EPUB
        7. Accessibility enhancements for Indexes
        8. Adjust text resizing options
        9. Create accessible glossaries
        10. ARIA role and label support
        11. Adobe PDF options
        12. Export to HTML5
        13. Export content to HTML (Legacy)
        14. Export to Adobe PDF
        15. Export to JPEG or PNG format
        16. Import SVG files
        17. Supported File Formats
        18. Export and import User Settings
        1. Print booklets
        2. Printer's marks and bleeds
        3. Print documents
        4. Inks, separation, and screen frequency
        5. Overprinting
        6. Create PostScript and EPS files
        7. Preflight files before handoff
        8. Print thumbnails and oversized documents
        9. Prepare PDFs for service providers
        10. Prepare to print separations
        1. Data merge
        2. Plug-ins
        3. Capture extension in InDesign
        4. Scripting
      1. Fixed issues
      2. Known issues
      3. Crash on launch
      4. Improve InDesign performance
      5. Preference folder read-only issue
      6. Troubleshoot file issues
      7. Unable to export InDesign file to PDF
      8. InDesign document recovery

    Find out about the latest updates, new features, and bug fixes in recent InDesign releases.

    March 2026 (version 21.3) 

    Feature updates

    • You can show or hide the Alt Text badge   icon (View > Extras > Hide Alt Text Badge or Show Alt Text Badge). Hiding the badge does not remove alt text and does not affect accessible exports.

    Fixed issues

    • [macOS only] InDesign file becomes uneditable after using Share for InCopy on the web and then saving it back locally on macOS.
    • [macOS only] Paper swatch applied to text has incorrect overprint settings. 
    • [macOS only] InDesign hangs at launch if the PDF preset folder lacks read permissions.
    • [macOS only] Locate Object button is now available in the Layers panel. 
    • Provide an option to show/hide Alt Text adornment icon.
    • Alt text added in the Accessibility section of Hyperlinks panel disappears when the file is saved as IDML.
    • Incorrect Alt Text generation for some images.
    • The UXP WebView Support component should not be packaged or installed with InDesign Server.
    • InDesign Server crashes when using the Adobe World-Ready Single-line Composer while interacting with multi-column text frames. 
    • InDesign intermittently crashes when opening or closing documents from a network location under low-memory conditions.
    • InDesign intermittently crashes while opening the document.
    • InDesign intermittently crashes while adding pages to the document.
    • InDesign intermittently crashes while performing copy/paste of text containing hyperlinks.
    • InDesign intermittently crashes during image placement.
    • Documentation missing from InDesign Server installation directory.
    • [Flex Layout] Elements added to the Article panel appear in incorrect sequence.
    • [Flex Layout] Buttons and Object States cannot be applied directly to Flex child elements.
    • IDML files with long indexes take excessive time to open.
    • Page size changes in Alternate Layout after reopening the IDML file.
    • Master page names are changed after IDML conversion.
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